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act 10: a perfect match

it’s crucial that you set your wordpress link structure to match blogger’s.

this can absolutely mean the difference between preserving your sanity in the next step, or not.

you will want to make sure that wordpress creates permalinks that, for the most part, totally match the links your old site created. obviously, since the domain has changed, the very first part of the links will be different. but your goal is to make sure that the last part of your new links matches the old links exactly.

this will make any cleanup & redirecting work much easier.

to modify the link structure of your wordpress blog to match blogger’s, you’ll want to do the following:

• click options
• click permalinks
• choose custom
• in the custom field, enter this: /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html
• click update permalink structure

voila!

obviously, if you are using a different blog service, that custom field value may be different.

begin act 11

|| posted by chris under migration, wordpress || || ||